Join us in the studio for a special edition of the RIFF + Shockoe Sessions Live.
Performances by Ruben Bertrand & Kim Logan & The Silhouettes.
Moderated by Reese Williams and Heather Waters.
Seating in the studio is limited to 70, so RSVP early to guarantee a seat.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Click here to purchase tickets online.
Three times a day, every day, a group of young women have the opportunity to die for their country. They are Adolf Hitler’s food tasters. H*tler’s Tasters is a fictional retelling of a largely unknown story of the young German women conscripted to taste Adolf Hitler’s food for poison. This dark comedy explores the way girls navigate sexuality, friendship, patriotism, and poison during the Third Reich. Using an anachronistic retelling of a historical footnote, H*tler’s Tasters considers what girls discuss as they wait to see if they will survive another meal.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Click here to purchase tickets online.
Rooted in creativity and located in the vibrant Richmond, Virginia metro area, CNTR is your premier destination for hosting a diverse range of events. Our versatile venue is designed to cater to a wide array of activities, from micro-weddings and ceremonies to dynamic workshops, team-building activities and creative events. At CNTR, we pride ourselves on providing a space that is as flexible and unique as the events we host.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person at the door.
The Robinson Theater is proud to partner with CultureWorks to present Pay-What-You-Will Classes for artoberVA, empowering you to name your price at any of the classes below when you drop-in.
Join any class at the Robinson for an opportunity to dance, create, experience arts & culture and meet new folks in the East End of Richmond.
Class Schedule:
Mondays -
Zumba (5:30 pm)
Tuesdays -
Strength & Conditioning (6:15-7 am)
Line Dancing (5:30 pm)
Wednesdays - Cardio Hip Hop (5:30 pm)
Thursdays -
Strength & Conditioning (6:15 am-7 am)
Zumba (5:30 pm) OR
DIY Art & Decor (5:30 pm)
Fridays - Sunrise Flow Yoga 7:30-8:30 am
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person only; pay at the door!
Join us on this murder mystery where YOU play a role in helping discover the murderer. Not even the improvisers know who will be the murderer. Come inspire the evening with your suggestions and play along. Can you solve it before the body count get too high?
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Click here to purchase tickets online.
Join the Virginia Holocaust Museum for a behind-the-scenes archives tour and participate in The Butterfly Project!
The Butterfly Project is a call to action through education, the arts and memorial-making. By painting ceramic butterflies, which are displayed as symbols of resilience and hope, participants remember the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust.
After learning about artifacts from our collections, each participant will learn about a child who perished during the Holocaust and paint a ceramic butterfly in their memory. All butterflies painted will then be fired on behalf of the Museum and eventually used for a display here at VHM!
We recommend this event for adults and students 6th grade and up. While this event is open to the public, space is limited.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Click here to register online.
Instructor: Sue Lanigan
Traditional origami with a fun and colorful twist. The addition of fun colorful printed fabric and appliques make these nesting box sets a truly unique treasure box set. All supplies provided. No previous experience necessary.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Please call the Center at (804) 261-2787 to register.
HATTheatre was founded in 1993 as a 501 (c) (3) non profit production company offering professional shows to our audiences and providing educational outreach to all ages.
Halloween Hullabaloo will include a wide range of fun, holiday inspired elements including an audience participatory reading of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" (think Rocky Horror style), scary campfire stories, a costume contest (yes, come in costume!), dancing (who knows the Thriller dance?!), plenty of cider, cocoa/coffee, cookies, and more.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Call the Box Office at 804-343-6364 to reserve, then Pay-What-You-Will at the door via cash or check.
Calling all artists! Our gardens and grounds are open early on selected Thursdays in October. Come take a stroll, find a shady spot, and release your creativity through painting, drawing, or the art form of your choosing OR bring a blanket and a book, a knitting project, a picnic, etc. The sky's the limit, but one thing's for certain: a morning spent in nature is a beautiful thing!
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Click here to reserve your free ticket online with an option to make a Pay-What-You-Will donation upon arrival.
The Robinson Theater is proud to partner with CultureWorks to present Pay-What-You-Will Classes for artoberVA, empowering you to name your price at any of the classes below when you drop-in.
Join any class at the Robinson for an opportunity to dance, create, experience arts & culture and meet new folks in the East End of Richmond.
Class Schedule:
Mondays -
Zumba (5:30 pm)
Tuesdays -
Strength & Conditioning (6:15-7 am)
Line Dancing (5:30 pm)
Wednesdays - Cardio Hip Hop (5:30 pm)
Thursdays -
Strength & Conditioning (6:15 am-7 am)
Zumba (5:30 pm) OR
DIY Art & Decor (5:30 pm)
Fridays - Sunrise Flow Yoga 7:30-8:30 am
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person only; pay at the door!
Interested in learning about improv? Join us for this Pay-What-You-Will 90-minute class!
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Click here to sign up online.
Join the most experienced tour guides in Richmond to explore the diversity of one of the city’s most vibrant neighborhoods. Visit murals, revitalized buildings and historic homes and learn the neighborhood’s rich history. As we trace its evolution from an immigrant working-class neighborhood, to the “Harlem of the South” and a modern community today, we’ll explore how art is telling the story of Jackson Ward.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Please contact tours@thevalentine.org or call 804-649-0711 to reserve your spot.
Instructor: Ann Marie Shoppell
Families can learn the basics for drawing portraits and explore abstract techniques together in this workshop. Adults, bring your children, ages 10+, and each participant will create two color portraits and will take home their own portrait and one they create of a family member!
Session I: Sunday, October 20, 2-4pm
Session II: Sunday, October 27, 2-4pm
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Please call the Center at (804) 261-2787 to register.
Our mission is to preserve stories that inspire. For many of us Black history is reduced to a handful of moments and events. We remember the courageous and popular stories of Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, but there are many, many more. Although Virginia’s past is sometimes painful, we can learn from our ancestors and allow that history to fuel our future.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person at the Front Desk.
Join us for an evening of spooky improv comedy scenes inspired by creepy soundscapes performed by classical musicians.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Tickets for purchase at the door on the day of the performance.
Evacuated from a war-torn world and marooned on a tropical island when their airplane crashes, a group of pre-adolescent boys find themselves battling for survival with no adults to help them. At first, the fair-minded and mild-mannered Ralph seems a natural leader, but as vestiges of civilization fall away, the more aggressive Jack takes control. Jack organizes the boys into a tribe of hunters, searching for pigs to kill and eat and, more alarmingly, watching for the Beast - a malevolent force that the boys believe is stalking the island.
Gradually the frightened youngsters slip from civilized behavior into red-blooded savagery. They battle with inner demons and external fears, with the weakest and most vulnerable at the highest risk. Ultimately, driven by a primitive bloodlust, childish “games” lead to tragic consequences and Golding’s timeless fable exposes the Beast that is in us all and debunks the myth of childhood innocence.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person at the Gottwald Box Office; Box Office opens at 6:30p.
American, born Hungary follows a remarkable number of émigrés and exiles from Hungary to Berlin and Paris and then on to New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, where they reinvented themselves and American photography. This exhibition is the first full examination of their circuitous journeys to the United States—in the aftermaths of two world wars and Hungary’s student-led revolt in 1956—and the wondrous artistic legacy that developed along the way.
A Long Arc explores the American South’s distinct, evolving, and contradictory character through an examination of photography and how photographers working in the region have reckoned with the South’s fraught history and posed urgent questions about American identity. Organized chronologically, the exhibition traces the South’s shifting identity in more than two hundred photographs made over more than 175 years.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person only at the Front Desk.
The Latin Ballet of Virginia is a non-profit performing arts organization that enriches and connects communities through Latin cultural dance experiences.
Mi Familia y Yo
Ages: Under 5 YRS
Time: 4 PM - 5 PM
Beg/Int Flamenco
Ages: Teen/Adult
Time: 7 PM - 8 PM
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Email latinballet@latinballet.com with the class you are interested in taking, to register early, or in-person the day of the class.
Enjoy Pay-What-You-Will admission to the Poe Museum from 3:00-5:00p.
Additionally, The Poe Museum is proud to partner with @cultureworksrva to present Storytime in Poe's Enchanted Garden as part of the artoberVA All-Access Pay-What-You-Will series. Storytime is suitable for for families with children under 12.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person only at the Front Desk.
To reserve Storytime in Poe’s Enchanted Garden specifically, click here. Note that this reservation is not your ticket, and guests will still need to purchase Pay-What-You-Will admission in-person at the Front Desk.
The Robinson Theater is proud to partner with CultureWorks to present Pay-What-You-Will Classes for artoberVA, empowering you to name your price at any of the classes below when you drop-in.
Join any class at the Robinson for an opportunity to dance, create, experience arts & culture and meet new folks in the East End of Richmond.
Class Schedule:
Mondays -
Zumba (5:30 pm)
Tuesdays -
Strength & Conditioning (6:15-7 am)
Line Dancing (5:30 pm)
Wednesdays - Cardio Hip Hop (5:30 pm)
Thursdays -
Strength & Conditioning (6:15 am-7 am)
Zumba (5:30 pm) OR
DIY Art & Decor (5:30 pm)
Fridays - Sunrise Flow Yoga 7:30-8:30 am
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person only; pay at the door!
The Latin Ballet of Virginia is a non-profit performing arts organization that enriches and connects communities through Latin cultural dance experiences.
VAMOS! Let’s MOVE
Ages: Adults/Seniors
Time: 5 PM - 6 PM
Studio: 3138
Hip Hop Caribeño
Ages: Teen/Adult
Time: 6 PM - 7 PM
Studio: 3140
Afro-Cuban Dance
Ages: Teen/Adult
Time: 7 PM - 8 PM
Studio: 3140
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Email latinballet@latinballet.com with the class you are interested in taking, to register early, or in-person the day of the class.
Instructor: Sue Lanigan
Learn an inspiring variety of quick bookbinding structures and techniques perfect for many forms of visual creative expression. These forms can be combined to create innovative forms. Perfect for sketch book, journals, or artist books. All supplies provided and no prior experience necessary.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Please call the Center at (804) 261-2787 to register.
“Painting Churches” finds Gardner and Fanny Church preparing to move out of their Beacon Hill house to their summer cottage on Cape Cod. Gardner, once a famous poet, now is retired. He slips in and out of senility as his wife Fanny valiantly tries to keep them both afloat. They have asked their daughter, Mags, to come home and help them move. Mags agrees, for she hopes as well to finally paint their portrait. She is now on the verge of artistic celebrity herself and hopes, by painting her parents, to come to terms with them and they with her. Mags triumphs in the end as Fanny and Gardner actually step through the frame and become a work of art ineffable and timeless.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person at the Box Office; cash preferred but credit cards accepted. Box Office opens one-hour prior to performance.
Mozart’s masterpiece tells the story of a handsome playboy, Don Giovanni, as he blazes a path to his own destruction in a single day. He’s loved by women as much as he loves them, but his disregard for decency catches up with him. In the end, supernatural forces exact the final punishment and, for the first time, the Don cannot outwit fate.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Over the phone through the Virginia Opera Box Office (866-673-7282).
When Grace’s teacher reveals that the United States has never had a female president, Grace decides she wants to be president and inspires a school election. While campaigning, Grace and her classmates discover what it takes to be the best candidate and find the hilarity in the wonderful world of politics! This timely story gives a fun introduction to the American electoral system, and teaches the value of hard work, courage, and independent thought.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person at the Box Office, or click here to get your tickets online!
We are back with our beloved Haunted Open House now with some terrifying new twists...
Explore a market of local artists, designers, and businesses.
Hear terrifying stories of Dark Medicine from Haunts of Richmond storytellers.
Imbibe some boo-ze with our Mad Scientist Bar Crawl.
Don't forget to design your own costume for our costume contest, complete with horrifyingly good prizes!
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person at the door.
Join us for a night of art-making on the second Friday of each month! Second Friday is a great way to spend time with family, friends, or a date.
Choose from a variety of classes at the following times:
6:00 - 7:15p
7:30 - 8:45p
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will
Click here to sign up online beginning October 7th at 9:00 am.
The open improv mixer! Sign-up to play improvised scenes with performers, both new and old.
Calling all improvisers, students, and living human beings! Welcome to The Mixer - where anyone is welcome to sign-up to play improvised scenes with performers, both new and old! If you're not interested in getting on stage, you can always relax in the audience with some snacks and drinks from our bar.
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
In-person at the door, or click here to get your ticket!
Choose from the following classes:
5pm Youth Contemporary
6pm Adult Beginner Hip Hop
6pm Street Jazz
7pm Tap
8pm Heels
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Sign up through their Eventbrite page here.
Calling all artists! Our gardens and grounds are open early on selected Thursdays in October. Come take a stroll, find a shady spot, and release your creativity through painting, drawing, or the art form of your choosing OR bring a blanket and a book, a knitting project, a picnic, etc. The sky's the limit, but one thing's for certain: a morning spent in nature is a beautiful thing!
How to Access Pay-What-You-Will:
Click here to reserve your free ticket online with an option to make a Pay-What-You-Will donation upon arrival.
